There were the usual exhortations to purity – think of the novel not as your opportunity to get rich or famous but to wrestle, in your own way, with the titans of the form – exhortations poets don’t have to make, given the economic marginality of the art, an economic marginality that soon all literature will share.
Novel, Writing, Literature
Since the world is ending,” Peter quoted from behind us, “why not let the children touch the paintings?
Children, World, Ending
1784